In this paper, Dr Eleanor S Armstrong will demonstrate how zines (pronounced ‘zeen’, a word that is a contraction of ‘magazine’) about space science can be theorised as a site of science education at the margins. Through exploring different zines and their potential to create counter narratives, she offers a series of objects that might reshape how we teach and learn about outer space. These objects develop cautionary engagement with and resistance to expansionist, colonialist imaginaries that underpin so much cultural material about outer space produced by official actors, offering science educators a rich site of counter-narratives and pluralising cultural texts that can be drawn on in pursuit of a more socially-just science education.

Attendance is free. Refreshments will be provided.